FWIW, I just set up a Chrome extension called "Link tweak" to automatically download the unbundled installer for anything on SourceForge should I accidentally go there. I've also told adblock to completely block anything ad related on their site. Not getting any ad revenue from me cause of this belgiumness

I know about it because I actually tried to install it and when it popped up with "do you want these craps?" I immediately cancelled out of the installer and deleted it, but not before it had already installed "optimizer pro" or whatever. I removed that from the filesystem and registry manually because I didn't trust the uninstaller.

But if there's something that's a better app in general, doesn't have the ads, and is (preferably) free, I might be able to talk him into switching.

I'd also love to hear about an FTP client recommendation.

However, my requirements are probably a bit stricter... I need a client that supports both SFTP and FTPS. The first is SSH's "pretend" FTP. The second is FTP over TLS. And yes, these are different protocols.

I still have an old version of FileZilla installed and keep the installer for that version. They updated to a new minor version and it now refuses to connect to practically any FTP server. I think every version in the 3.10.* range had an issue when I tried.

When I install the damn thing anywhere, I have to jump through hoops to disable the auto-update and then clear the settings file since they store that there is an update and prompt it every time.

i only released it because i needed a code sample for a job interview and i din't know any better at the time.

I suppose they've probably taken over my project, too. I never made any releases; it's still alpha. What's there works, but some major features are not yet implemented (and at this point probably never will be) — including writing some of the data you worked so hard to create to the save file.

I suppose if I ever pick up that project again, it will move to github.

My projects are all still there. But then, pretty much all of my releases were either .zips or .tgzs, with a few .debs, so not a lot of opportunity for Windows installer shenanigans.

Most haven't been updated by me in years, though from my profile they all claim to have been updated within the last month. I couldn't figure out what the update was, and once I drill into the project, the update date I expect was there.

Incidentally, any guesses as to how long until one of these parties sues?

I don't think they'd be successful unless there was a violation of the particular open source license. Open source licenses pretty much allow anyone to do anything they want with the source code, as long as they release the code for any changes they make. It doesn't sound like SourceForge even made any changes to the actual code.

I don't think they'd be successful unless there was a violation of the particular open source license. Open source licenses pretty much allow anyone to do anything they want with the source code, as long as they release the code for any changes they make. It doesn't sound like SourceForge even made any changes to the actual code.

No, I don't think they could successfully sue for copyright violations, but they may be able to sue for trademark violations and related matters (e.g., passing off). Debian rebranded Firefox for similar reasons:

In 2006, a branding issue developed when Mike Connor, representing the Mozilla Corporation, requested that the Debian Project comply with Mozilla standards for use of the Thunderbird trademark when redistributing the Thunderbird software. At issue were modifications not approved by the Mozilla...

In addition, if you are distributing Mozilla binaries yourself, and wish to use the Mozilla Mark(s), you may not (a) disable, modify or otherwise interfere with any installation mechanism contained in a Mozilla product; (b) use any such installation mechanism to install any plug-ins, themes, extensions, software, or items other than the Mozilla product; or (c) use or provide any program, mechanism or process (other than an installation mechanism contained in the Mozilla product) to install such product. Any use of a meta-installer would require our prior written permission.

Like what? I don't keep up much with Mozilla development, since they still1 haven't made their browser 64-bit, which means I run into OOMs way too frequent for my liking (and yes, I'm a tab hoarder). These days I mostly use it just when I need/want to use a particular add-on.

See, this is what happens when you let @Remy work on the interface. It's all unicorns and rainbow farts.

1: Last I checked, anyway. Let's see:

[quote="Mozilla Firefox, post:1/../../19130/41cd05cb4073da2f.html, topic:1000/../../../uploads/default/"]Please note that while the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 can be used to run Firefox, only 32-bit builds of Firefox are supported at this time.
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Official Linux x64 builds are official, though. And I think the OSX ones are x64, too.

True, I should have specified I meant on Windows. I haven't used either of those OSs for my primary computer in a while, so that hasn't really been relevant to me. Which reminds me, I need to update or rebuild that linux VM..

You can turn on "Electrolysis", which causes Firefox to start metastasizing into multiple processes like Chrome does. But you really shouldn't be hitting the 4GB limit even as a tab hoarder as only tabs you've actually looked at since restarting are charged against you -- the remainder have tabs but aren't loaded at all. Take a trip down •about:memory• way and see what's up.

That's with a small (for me) amount of tabs and not having done much beyond starting it and leaving it open a while. Now add on a nice shortlong trip to TV Tropes, and it's going to have a short, painful life.

But how much of that commit is explicit, and how much of that is heap-unclassified? I'm at 2.5GB right now, but I can directly attribute 1GB of that to in-proc DLLs (mostly stupid nVidia garbage) and 1GB of that to a tab with a I'm working on. Actual, normal browsing is only hitting 500ish MB.